Item 319883Amish Love. Adventures in a Puritan Cult.
Price: $950
Printed in Florence, Italy: Micheal Angelino Press, nd [ca. 1930]. Blaine, Mahlon. Read More Item Details for Amish Love. Adventures in a Puritan Cult Add to Wish List
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ABAA Boston Virtual Book Fair 2020
Item 260706Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride's Crossing.
Price: $2,250
Boston: J. Eastman Chase, 7 Hamilton Place, [1891]. A rare photographic portrait of Massachusetts’ North Shore region, including Manchester by the Sea, Beverly Farms, and Pride’s Crossing, with beautifully reproduced photogravures by Jeanette M. Appleton. Read More Item Details for Photogravures of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverley Farms, Pride's Crossing Add to Wish List
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![Item #314656 Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic]. Niiat Baka...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/314656.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1552592130)
Item 314656Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic].
Price: $6,500
St. Petersburg: pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1802. First and only edition of the first primer of the Tatar language in the Russian empire. The first primer of the Tatar language, compiled by a native Siberian Tatar under the direction of Iosif Ivanovich Giganov 1764-1800?), a priest and teacher at the..... Read More Item Details for Bukvar' tatarskago i arabskago pis'ma. [Primer of Tatar and Arabic] Add to Wish List
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Cook Congratulates Operti, 1896
Item 238153Autograph Letter, signed ("Frederick A. Cook") to the Arctic artist Albert Operti, congratulating him on his recent success [with the...
Price: $2,000
Brooklyn, NY: Oct. 4, 1896. Cook Congratulates Operti, 1896. A charming letter between two Arctic veterans. Frederick Cook, founding member of both the Arctic Club and the Explorer's Club, and future rival claimant to Robert Peary as discoverer of the North Pole, writes to his old friend Albert Operti. Both..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed ("Frederick A. Cook") to the Arctic artist Albert Operti, congratulating him on his recent success [with the Peary expedition to Greenland], and hoping to meet with him to discuss it Add to Wish List
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Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign
Item 319725Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of Annapolis...
Price: $1,850
Annapolis: Jonas Green, 1755. Recruiting for Braddock's Campaign. Passed in December 1754 "to raise a Body of able Land-men, for his Majesty's Service, against the French and their Allies on this Continent", this separately-printed session law essentially authorizes a draft system for forcing "all and every able-bodied Freeman who live..... Read More Item Details for Act of Assembly passed in December, 1754. At a session of Assembly, begun and held at the city of Annapolis, on Thursday the twelfth day of December, in the fourth year of the dominion of the Right Honourable Frederick, Lord Baron of Baltimore, absolute lord and proprietar of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, &c. Annoque Domini 1754, the following act passed, viz. An act for taking and detaining able-bodied men for His Majesty’s service Add to Wish List
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Item 319882Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province of Massachusetts Bay in compensation for levying, clothing...
Price: $6,500
[Great Britain]: [circa 1761]. Towards the end of the French and Indian War, William Pitt started a specie grant program to reward colonies for raising troops, thus putting the colonies in competition with each other for a share of an annual 200,000 pounds. With specie scarce in the colonies, the..... Read More Item Details for Manuscript document signed "George R" authorizing payment of £60,634 to the Province of Massachusetts Bay in compensation for levying, clothing and paying troops to fight against the French Add to Wish List
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Foundations of Rocketry and Space Flight
Item 314548A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes.
Price: $11,500
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1919. First edition. Foundations of Rocketry and Space Flight. One of the earliest publications on rocketry and space flight, and "the most influential and important of Goddard’s scientific papers ... The short treatise offered detailed mathematical proof that solid propellant rockets were capable of boosting modest..... Read More Item Details for A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes Add to Wish List
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![Item #255063 The Scenerys and Customs of Japan [Sikishima bikan]. Bokujo Koizumi, compiler](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/255063.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1507894609)
Item 255063The Scenerys and Customs of Japan [Sikishima bikan].
Price: $900
Tokyo: Bokujo Koizumi, 1906. Second edition, following the 1905-1906 2 volume edition with hand-coloured plates. Very uncommom in any edition. Read More Item Details for The Scenerys and Customs of Japan [Sikishima bikan] Add to Wish List
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Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened
Item 318195The First London Underground Trip.
Price: $4,500
London: May 24, 1862. Rare photograph of the London Underground before it opened. "Edgware Road Station" along with an open railroad car filled with dignitaries including Lord Richard Grosvenor, Earl (Sixth) Macclesfield, Mr. Chas Wood, Amsburey, Lord Werlock(?), Sir Stephen Elgin, Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. I Fowler (Engineer) in white..... Read More Item Details for The First London Underground Trip Add to Wish List
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Item 316818Stock Market Profits.
Price: $3,500
New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, (1934). First edition. First edition in scarce dust-jacket of the follow-up to the author's Stock Market Theory and Practice. "One of the early interpreters of the Dow Theory, editor of Forbes Magazine, Schabacker is the only author credited in the chartist's bible, Technical Analysis..... Read More Item Details for Stock Market Profits Add to Wish List
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Item 316382Album of 73 Photographs recording the construction of Spadeadam Rocket Establishment.
Price: $2,500
Cumbria, England: 1957-1959. The Rocket Establishment in Spadeadam, Cumbria, was constructed in the late 1950s as a test and launch facility for the U.K.'s Blue Streak missile, which was designed to deliver a nuclear payload to Moscow. The Spadeadam site was divided into five areas: an administration and assembly block..... Read More Item Details for Album of 73 Photographs recording the construction of Spadeadam Rocket Establishment Add to Wish List
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Robert Louis Stevenson's Copy
Item 27585Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland, from Queen Anne's Accession to the Throne to the Commencement of the Union of...
Price: $2,500
London: printed: and sold by J. Baker, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1714. Robert Louis Stevenson's Copy. An interesting history, made especially so by an appendix which gives the names of those who are identified only by initials in the text A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. Read More Item Details for Memoirs Concerning the Affairs of Scotland, from Queen Anne's Accession to the Throne to the Commencement of the Union of the Two Kingdoms … With an Account of the Origine and Progress of the Design’d Invasion from France Add to Wish List
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The Rare Sydney Printing
Item 319960Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu.
Price: $8,000
Sydney: [Privately printed], 1890. First edition, issued (according to Edmund Gosse) in an edition of 25 copies. The Rare Sydney Printing. Father Damien, Damien de Veuster (1840-1889) was a Belgian missionary from Belgium who worked at the leper settlement at Molokai from 1873; he eventually contracted leprosy and died of..... Read More Item Details for Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu Add to Wish List
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Presentation Copy
Item 319958Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses … From the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of...
Price: $5,000
Edinburgh: Printed by Neill and Company, 1871. First edition, one of about 50 copies. Presentation Copy. One of the earliest publications of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), who grew up in a family of lighthouse engineers. Beginning in 1867, Stevenson studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh and spent three..... Read More Item Details for Notice of a New Form of Intermittent Light for Lighthouses … From the Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts, Vol. VIII, 1870-71 Add to Wish List
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Item 320128Autograph letter, signed ("M. Teresa M.C."), to Robert MacNamara, thanking him "for all the concern you have for the poor...
Price: $4,500
Bronx: July 14, 1974. In full: "Before leaving U.S. I just want to thank you for all the concern you have for the poor of the world, and also for all you are anxious to do for them. I will prey for you and yours, that He may always be..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter, signed ("M. Teresa M.C."), to Robert MacNamara, thanking him "for all the concern you have for the poor of the world" Add to Wish List
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Item 317515Portfolio of 20 original erotic drawings.
Price: $6,000
ca.1920s. Read More Item Details for Portfolio of 20 original erotic drawings Add to Wish List
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A Fine First of Walton’s ‘Angler’
Item 319605The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation.
Price: $75,000
London: Printed by T. Maxey for Rich. Marriot, 1653. First edition. A Fine First of Walton’s ‘Angler’. A choice copy of the first edition of Walton’s Compleat Angler, a landmark of mid-seventeenth century English letters and one of the foundation stones of angling literature, with distinguished nineteenth century provenance. James..... Read More Item Details for The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation Add to Wish List
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